Improvement in cigars



UNITED STATES .EDWARD B. MEAD, O F PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

.IMPRQVEMENT in CIGARS.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 140,168, dated June 24, 1873; application filed May 21, 1873. l

To all whom it may concern: Beit known that I, EDWARD B. MEAL, o Pittsfield, ot the county of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts, have made a new and useful Invention having reference to Cigars; and

' do herebyddeclaro the same to be fully described in the following specilication and represented in the accompanying drawings, of

'lhe4 said attachment consists of a tube, A,

` of glass inserted and fixed in the cigar B at one end', fand extending about three-quarters of Yan inch into the cigar and about halt' -an inch outwardly beyond such end, the part out of the cigar being compressed on two opposite sides in the concavefform or manner, as shown `at a a. The portion within the cigar is to be held in place, if necessary, by glue or cement.

'Y This form of the attachment enables it to be held by the teeth or between thelips ot' a 'person with great ease, and to advantage.

I am aware that it has been customary to make cigars withja cylindrical tube of straw .A fixed on each end and projecting from one end of it, the tube being cylindrical from endto end; therefore I make no'claini thereto. Such tubes are necessarily of small diameter, and,

being very exile and readily compressible, especially after being wet by the saliva ofthe mouth, are very liable to become useless in a short period after the cigar may have been set on re and smoked. They cannot be employed to anypractical advantage to support the cigar by the lips or teeth, for to do this the smoker has to compress his lips or teeth upon the -tube, which, under such compression, and after being wet, will readily contract and give way or become broken down, so as to destroy or impair it as a supporter of the cigar and conductor of the smoke, as described.

ByV employing a glass mouth-piece l have one impermeable and stift one having aform by which it may be firmly held or grasped by the lips or teeth Without any danger of injury to it; it maintaining its 'normal condition while the cigar may be in the act of being smoked.

I claim, as a new or improved manufae tnre- 1. The cigar mouth-piece, made of Aa glass tube flattened concavely onits opposite sides, and otherwise constructed as described and represented.

2. As an improved manufacture, a cigar provided with a glass mouth-piece made Vand arranged with and in it, as specified.

` EDWARD4 B. MEAD. Witnesses:

J oHN B. HnsKINs, J oHN CROsBY, Jr. 

